And she takes into her household to do work she herself is incapable of doing, another amateur, a woman who might, in many cases, do well under a capable commander, but who is hopelessly at sea when expected to evolve a system of housekeeping all by herself.
This irregular state of affairs in what should be a carefully studied, well-organized industry is reflected in the conditions commonly meted out to domestics.

Take housing conditions, for example.

Some housekeepers provide their servants with good beds; of course, not quite as good as other members of the household enjoy, but good enough.

Some set aside pleasant, warm, well-furnished rooms for the servants.

But Miss Kellor's investigators reported that it was common to find the only unheated room in a house or apartment set aside for the servant.